Similarities can be seen with William Addison Dwiggins' 1935 design for the typeface Electra in its clarity of form, and rhythmic, highly calligraphic italics.

Eric Gill's 1931 typeface Joanna (released by Monotype Corporation in 1937), with its old style armature but nearly square serifs, is also similar in its nearly mono-weighted stroke width.

FF Scala is a complete typeface family with small caps, ligatures and text figures or lower-case numbers, as well as condensed regular and bold fonts.

In 1996, a decorative variety of capitals titled FF Scala Jewel[1] was released.

It is also used on the logo of the United States' Department of Homeland Security, which uses the similar Joanna as a corporate font.